Combined clamp and collar-button.



F. E. GLYNN.

COMBINED CLAMP AND COLLAR BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 14. 1915.

1,1 60,066. Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

A FOR/V578 WITNESSES:

:OLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON, D. c.

trap ares COMBINED CLAMP AND COLLAR-BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. B 13115.

Application filed April 14, 1915. Serial No. 21,254.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. GLYNN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Grand Junction, in the county of Mesa and State of Colorado, have invented a new and Improved Combined Clamp and Collar- Button, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention is an improvement in a type of collar-buttons comprising a clamp ada pted to secure the meeting ends of a shirtneck band, and having a stud attached for engaging and securing the ends of a collar.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a front elevation of the neck portion of a coat shirt indicating my improvement applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the device in its open position, the view indicating the front plate lifted and displaying its rear surface; Fig.

4 is a transverse sectional detail on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a similar view on the line 5-5; and Fig. 6 is a front elevation of a blank from which the rear plate is formed.

The several parts of this device may be made of any suitable materials, and the relative sizes and proportions of the same, as well as the general design of the mechanism, may be varied to a considerable extent without departing from the spirit of the invention hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, I show at S a portion of an open-front shirt having a neckband B. It is to be understood, however, that my improvement may be used in connection with other types of shirts or other garments.

It is a common experience of men thata neckband, after being worn and laundried a num er of times, seems to stretch, which fact, taken in connection with the wear and enlargement of the buttonholes, makes the neckband loose and subject to folding or buckling when a collar is applied thereto. It is also well known that when the neckband becomes loose due to wear and repeated laundrving, a button loosely slipped in the buttonholes thereof in the usual manner does not hold the collar steady when the necktie is being adjusted. When the necktie is bein drawn circumferentially of a turn-down collar, there is always more or less tendency of the collar being drawn around the neck to one side or the other, a condition which either displaces the collar button or distorts the neckband in a disagreeable manner. My improvement, therefore, constitutes a means to clamp the overlapping ends of the neckband in a snug substantially rigid manner to fit the wearers neck irrespective of the condition of its length or the buttonhol es. In other words, the clamp is applied to the neckband in a firm position, and when the device is being thus clamped the neckband will be fitted to the wearers neck. The locking portion of the clamp, constituting the collar button, is then held consequently in a definite fixed position, and with the collar button thereon the collar will be held steady to resist the tendency to circumferential movement or displacement when the tie is being adjusted.

The clamp comprises two main parts or plates. a rear plate 10 and a front plate 11 hinged or otherwise permanently connected as shown at 12. Each of these plates is made preferably of sheet metal with fingers 10' and 11 respectively, interlocking with each other and forming the hinge. These clamp plates, as herein shown and described, are adapted to be passed downwardly over the overlapping ends of the neckband B with the hinge 12 lying along or adjacent the upper edge of the neckband.

Cooperating with and constituting a lock for the two main clamping plates 10 and 11 is a stud 13 in the nature of a lever hinged at its rear end to the rear plate 10 in any suitable permanent manner, and as shown herein, the said rear end is provided with a pair of points or trunnions 14 fitted in a. groove 15 formed in the front face of the rear plate 10 as shown best in Figs. 5 and 6, and locked therein by a pair of keepers 16 formed, as shown herein, as integral members or parts of the sides of the back 10 and folded over forwardly and inwardly o er the trunnions 14 as shown in Fig. 5. The stud is formed with shouldersl'? adjacent the trunnions 14 which, cooperating with the folded fingers or keepers 1G, positively prevent lateral movement or displace ment of the stud with respect to the back 10. The outer edges of the shoulders lie substan tiallv flush with the finished outer faces of the keepers.

The front plate 11 is provided with a T- shaped opening 18, there being provided on opposite sides of the center of the opening a pair of shoulders 19, the same being shown herein as being provided With grooves or notches 20 arranged in alinement With each other transversely of the opening 18. These notches are formed on the front surface of the front plate 11 When in normal closed position, the axis of the notches being parallel to the axis of the trunnions and hinge 12.

The head 21 of the stud is passed for- Wardly through the usual buttonholes b of the neckband, and While the stud is disposed at an oblique angle with respect to the base or rear plate, said head passes through the larger or head portion of the. T-o'pening l8. Adjacent the head 21 are formed on the shank of the stud a pair of shoulders 22.

which likewise pass through the. larger portion of the opening 18, said shoulders 22 being adapted to engage over and interlock With the notches 20 of the shouldersl9 when the main plates 10 and 11, are pressed toward each other and the stud is brought forcibly into asubstantially perpendicular position with respect to the base 10;. The shoulders 22 are preferably beveled slightly as shown at 22 to facilitate the locking o'peration just described. The plates 10 and 11 are curved or concaved on their inner surfaces and of a flexible resilient material so as to provide for a considerable gripping effect When applied to neckbands of different thicknesses and yet providing for the holding of the overlapping ends of the neckband in a substantially fixed 7 Stud having lateralshoulders and hinged to bne 1"- sai plates, the. other plate being provided with a T shaped o ening to receive the smaaaawith notches rorenga'ging the shoulders of the stud, as described.

In tesumoaywhrear I have signed iny t me to this specification in the presence of two sub's'ribin witnesses.

, I FRANK ERNEST GLYNN.

Witnesses: a

Caspar: S. Dm'scfi, Jin, G'LAiiK E. RfiH.

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